Knowledge and best practices in management of EU projects, unified into the training and certification schema all over the Europe, will be presented to and discussed with participants.

At the seminar, participants will obtain and improve knowledge, applicable to all EU programs. They will understand:

- mechanisms of EU programs, program calls and monitoring of EU projects.- responsibilities and authority of EU projects related EU authorities- the general life cycle of EU projects.- the process and best practices for EU projects application.- issues and best practices related to financial planning and reporting.- best practices in selecting and managing EU project partnership.- management principles for management of distributed team.- principles of and need for relevant IT support for distributed EU project teams.- most often risks related to EU projects and best practices to avoid them.

PARTICIPANTS

- New-comers to the world of EU projects:Get familiar!There are a lot of opportunities for gaining the financial support from European budget; still, you need to understand the whole mechanism to take the advantage of EU funding. Otherwise the risk of crucial mistakes in a project is quite high.- Experienced EU project managers:Learn and exchange!We can always learn something new and improve our skills with best practices of others. There might be some problems which make your EU project life difficult – discuss them on seminar, get guidelines.- Representatives of managing authorities for EU projects:Foster cooperation with beneficiaries!Tasks related to management of EU programs, even in a local area, are complex; the fluctuation of personnel is intensive as much as in other modern business. Understand how EU project partnerships operate and what are their most common challenges - in order to evaluate proposals and to manage cooperation with beneficiaries even more effective.

CERTIFICATION

Participants, who will successfully pass the ECQA exam for ECQA Certified EU Project Manager, will be able to justify their skills with the Europe wide issued certificate. It will provide them advantage in sovereign cooperation in EU project partnership, in proving their skills as a reference for employment or for service providing on the market.

EXAMS

Exam are done online, using a central Exam Pool of Multiple Choice Questions. The exam is modular and you need to cover a minimum of 66% to pass one element.

The Exam takes about 3 hours and 110 questions have to be answered.

Successful participants who pass at least 8 out of 11 elements may apply to be listed on the ECQA web site as ECQA Certified EU Project Managers.